Synopsis
※ This work is a revised and re-released edition of a book originally published in 2020, with certain expressions modified.
The Duchy of Hessen-Gard has lost its ruler.
Two neighboring nations, each seeking to claim it, reach an agreement: both will send a royal to marry, and their union’s heir will inherit the duchy.
Thus, Erna and Kalion arrive in Hessen-Gard and marry.
Their first impressions of each other could not have been worse.
“What is this—some kind of pumpkin?”
“Excuse me? You look like a dried-up earthworm.”
A marriage that started off completely on the wrong foot.
For over ten years, they’ve bared their teeth at each other—but have still dutifully governed the duchy together.
Then, one day, a royal letter arrives.
“Produce an heir within one year.”
After more than ten years without a child, both countries raise objections.
If no heir is conceived within the year, they’ll be summoned back to their homelands.
To return to the places that abandoned them—impossible.
There’s only one solution: they must produce an heir.
The problem is…
“How exactly are we supposed to do that?”
It’s not that they don’t know how.
But after ten years of glaring daggers at each other every time they meet, how on earth are they supposed to do it?
